The conference is open but not limited to original scholarshipin the following areas:

Religion and utopiaColonial/imperial utopian narrativesDystopia and anti-utopianismReform/revolution and utopiaProphecy and utopian visionsGenre conventions of utopiaFeminist/queer utopiasUtopia and the cityRace and utopiaEarly American utopiasUtopia and the novelTechnology and utopiaNon-western utopiaClassical utopiasArt and architecture and utopia

Submissions are not limited on the basis of historical period orgenre; we hope to have papers and panels that span different cultural,historical, theoretical, and disciplinary contexts.